This book argues that European Union institutional mechanics and the EU as a political unit cannot be properly understood without taking into account the elites that make the policy decisions.
This book argues that European Union institutional mechanics and the EU as a political unit cannot be properly understood without taking into account ...
Globalisation and complex Europeanisation are two significant challenges currently influencing the restructure of the European nation-state, and redefining political power. For this volume, first-rate European scholars look at the consequences of these and other challenges faced by European societies. Contributions revisit traditional objects of political science - state sovereignty, civil society and citizenship - mixing sophisticated empirical analyses with methodological and conceptual innovations including field theory, multiple correspondence analysis, and the study of space sets....
Globalisation and complex Europeanisation are two significant challenges currently influencing the restructure of the European nation-state, and redef...
In this book Kauppi develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French and Finnish empirical cases, the political practices that maintain the Union's 'democratic deficit'. Kauppi conceptualises the European Union as both an arena for political contention and a nascent political order. In this evolving, multi-levelled European political field, individuals and groups construct material and symbolic structures of political power, grounded in a variety of social resources such as nationality, culture, and gender. The author shows how the...
In this book Kauppi develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French and Finnish empirical ca...
Globalisation and complex Europeanisation are two significant challenges currently influencing the restructure of the European nation-state, and redefining political power. For this volume, first-rate European scholars look at the consequences of these and other challenges faced by European societies. Contributions revisit traditional objects of political science - state sovereignty, civil society and citizenship - mixing sophisticated empirical analyses with methodological and conceptual innovations including field theory, multiple correspondence analysis, and the study of space sets....
Globalisation and complex Europeanisation are two significant challenges currently influencing the restructure of the European nation-state, and redef...
This book argues that contemporary European politics creates new forms of transnational power that challenges the traditional parameters of the nation-state.
This book argues that contemporary European politics creates new forms of transnational power that challenges the traditional parameters of the nation...